Please join us for The Manufacturing Initiative’s largest event of the year, bringing together our communities of suppliers, startups, and supporters to showcase, pitch, and connect!

The Manufacturing Initiative connects startups with physical product to regional manufacturers, engineering firms, and other companies essential to their supply chain, as well as product development education and resources. To date we have worked with over 170 startups, 270 suppliers, and made connections resulting in 120+ contracts and purchase orders, millions of dollars in economic value.

At this event, suppliers will showcase and hardware startups will pitch to a panel of manufacturers and engineers for an award of $10,000 to solve specific engineering or prototyping challenges. We will also be joined by our ecosystem partners and legislative supporters, share exciting news about the future of the Manufacturing Initiative. Lunch will be provided!

Synectic is a product development firm offering a wide range of services to get your product to market, from brainstorming and concept development to engineering, product optimization, prototyping, testing, and manufacturing.

Synectic specializes in mechanical, electrical, and industrial engineering. They will be presenting a presentation on good design controls for a successful product launch.

Owned by MACK Technologies, Synectic can provide services all they way from original product engineering to full volume manufacturing.